Posted on 04/26/2010 6:17:04 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
Yes, you read right. I cannot wait for the Value-Added Tax. I can't wait for the prices of electronics to jump 20% or more. I can't wait for liquor and cigarettes to turn into luxuries. I'm looking forward to the kind of shock and awe that only a smack in the face by reality can bring. Nearly half the population of this country is a pack of no-load, can't-carry-their-weight and don't-think-they-should-have-to parasites who do nothing but clamour for more and more goodies that "the rich" (i.e., anyone who earns more than they do) must pay for. So now they want health care? Okie-dokie, babies... but guess what? Even your soft, sorry butt is going into the sling for this one, and the VAT is the only way to finally make them understand what it means to have the government paying for so much of what should be the individual's responsibility. When the VAT hits the liquor store, it will finally hit most Obama voters where they live. And I hope it hurts.
Comrade, you forget one thing. Members of the party will have a card that exempts them from paying the tax.
And I feel the same way about a VAT in terms of how it will hit the "poor" the hardest, even though I personally hate the idea of paying yet another tax. But fear not, I am sure that any VAT that 0bama imposes on us will simply apply only to "evil rich people."
Be careful what you wish for. Once the chains go on, they aren’t coming off.
Yes, they will. Liberals have already laid this out. The “poor” will get cards that exempt them from the tax. Every time they make a purchase, the card will be scanned and the VAT amount will be credited back to the card. Liberals always have a plan to exempt their own voters from tax increases. You think you are mad now, just wait until you read the text of the Democrat VAT tax bill.
No, I think party card-holders will get to shop in special stores. That’s the way they’ve worked it in the past.
The earners will pay, while those receiving Obama money will never feel it--the democrats will trample over each other to co-sponser the "VAT Supplemental Benefits Act of 2011" to give the freeloaders an extra 20% to cover the tax, AND a bonus check come tax time.
I'm also against the use of this tool, which is as far from a conservative idea as I can think of.
A VAT is designed to obfuscate the problem. Taxpayers truly won’t know what hit them - that’s the point of it.
We’re talking about a population that thinks it does NOT pay income tax because most people “get money back” come April 15. A substantial increase in prices due to a VAT will be condemned as “greedy corporations”, not a greedy government. “When the VAT hits the liquor store” they’ll be mad at the clerk, not at the incumbent legislators who imposed hidden taxes throughout the product’s lifecycle; they’ll demand the retailer or manufacturer be punished, and express that demand by _keeping_ the very same twits who imposed the tax (and thus price hike) in the first place, twits who having imposed the VAT will rail against “greedy corporations”.
I doubt they will get n exemption at the register. More likely they will get a “rebate” check in the mail every month so it comes from the Federal teat.
You don’t get it. They will start the VAT tax at 2%, so nobody cares. Then, whenever they need a little more cash, they’ll jack it up by a quarter of a percent.
In ten years, we’ll have the 25% VAT and a 45% top marginal rate. But it will be added so slowly, the frog will never jump out of the pot.
We need to draw a line in the sand on this. No VAT. No more money.
You’ll see a reaction for a short time, but the sheeple will meekly accept their new tax without questioning.
No one in Washington can be trusted with money, the swamp has to be drained......
You want the ones who don’t pay the income tax to feel the hurt. How about those of use who ARE paying, and will still be hit by the VAT??
I’m always entertained by pols who tell us the only way to lower to deficit and debt is to raise taxes. Once they see that additional money flowing in, do we REALLY think they’re going to pass by the opportunity to grab that cash for their states/districts?
Every American should have to pay some income tax so they know how it feels to have your hard earned money seized and given to some one else....the only fair tax is one that no one escapes.
The ‘Poor’ (ie. Obama voters) get their food ‘free’. They also get clothing, medical insurance, medicine and their housing free, compliments of Obama and the welfare machine. The VAT will not affect them in the least.
Further, their discretionary funding, given to them by the goverment - will be inflated to account for the VAT. So, in the end they will either get even more ‘free’ stuff; or at the worst will remain the same.
However, for those of us who chose to work to support the freeloaders, we will find that the costs just to feed and clothe our families will increase by 15-20%.
1. They won’t apply it to food, at first
2. The poor could get a “rebate”
3. The sheeple won’t know because it won’t be on the receipt
the sheeple will blame the private sector for the price hikes.
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